>So far I see no compelling advantage to Win8 on a desktop or laptop. It has some enhanced functionality, but nothing wonderful.
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>It has a lot of negatives - the Metro interface and lots of interface changes and deletions on the desktop.
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>If a machine will run Windows 7, that's what I recommend it runs. Unless Microsoft listens to users and makes big changes to Win8 before release, I'll stick to Win7.
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>IMHO Win8 should be marketed as a tablet and POS/specialty OS. Microsoft should quit trying to push it on the desktop - it has no business there. Windows users actually think on occasion - they're not Apple users who are dictated to.

There is surely something we do not know about. At least, I mean, someone out there might start to get the feeling from the community and say "Oh, what do we do!". In my notes, so far, this one is marked as skipped. But, then again, I'll wait to see how this will be going and, maybe at one time or another, we'll have to move on to W8 instead of just waiting for the next OS.

But, in overall, for me at least, I had a better feeling about Vista, even though I never used thus I skipped it, than W8.